Word: warne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special combined rate, 2) giving advertisers unreasonably low rates in the States based on their ad volume in the Times-Pic, 3) persuading newsstands to stop selling the Item by threatening to withdraw the Times-Pic and the States. Publisher Nicholson's only comment was to warn other publishers that they were also, by implication, parties to the suit: "A substantial part of the charges ... are incorrect. Those which are true involve practices followed by many newspapers ... for years...
...Shakespeare's plays, the British Common Law and fish & chips, the U.S. has transmitted to Britain in recent years a passion for the 100%-American chocolate milk shake and double frosted. Last October, alarmed at this drift toward such dairy delights, Satirist Maurice Lane Norcott attempted to warn readers of the London Daily Mail against the perils involved. Plumbing the darkest depths of his imagination, he envisioned a Hollywood soft drink fountain in the heart of London and called it "Mother Moo-moo's Milk...
...Belgium last week, pro-government La Libre Belgique said that it did not advocate censorship. But it thought that the time had come to warn foreign correspondents that they had been "abusing Belgian hospitality" by their "distorted" coverage of the recent political campaign. In Britain and France, indirect efforts have been made to place official restraints on the press, but newspapers have resisted them. A year after the proposal by Britain's Royal Commission on the Press that a body of press and public members be set up to guard against journalistic "excesses" (TIME, July 11), Britain...
From George Bernard Shaw, 93: "None unless he asks for it, in which case warn him that you are not infallible, and are a generation out of date." From U.N. Secretary General Trygve Lie: "Understand and support the United Nations in its work of preventing a third world war." From British Author Evelyn (Vile Bodies) Waugh: "Men: go to the university; read philosophy, history and the classics; ride horses. Women: go to Europe; learn the French and English languages; study architecture and modesty." From Author-Professor Henry Steele Commager (America in Perspective): "Keep an open mind and an experimental attitude...
Where a surgeon must work in the skull, or perhaps the chest, their technique gives an added margin of safety, the surgeons report after using it in 50 operations (in which they drew off an average of 3½ pints of blood). But, they warn, so drastic a procedure is not to be lightly used-and never used for an operation on a limb or in the abdomen, where bleeding is easily controlled. In fact, they say, it should only be used in "cases in which the surgeon encounters bleeding which would endanger life or function...